Name-Anuja Ghimire

Class-8
Section-B
Roll No -2

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 Information Technology
• Information technology (IT) can be defined in various ways, but is broadly
considered to encompass the use of computers and telecommunications
equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data.
• The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer
networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies
such as television and telephones.
•  The term "information technology" in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958
article published in theHarvard Business Review; authors Leavitt and Whisler
commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established
name. We shall call it information technology (IT).
• In a business context, the Information Technology Association of America has
defined information technology (IT) as "the study, design, development,
application, implementation, support or management of computer-based
information systems".
•  In an academic context, the Association for Computing Machinery defines it as
"undergraduate degree programs that prepare students to meet the computer
technology needs of business, government, healthcare, schools, and other kinds
of organizations.
 IT important in Nepal
• By the help of this technology country can introduced and can discovered many
things. The IT policy, Nepal was adopted in 2002 AD. (2057 B.S) to define the
visin, background, objectives and strategies of computer education in Nepal.
• The main vision of IT policy of Nepal 2002 A.D. is to "Place Nepal on the global
map of information Technology".
• IT policy helps to make information technology accessible to the general public
and increase employment through this means. Not only this, it helps to build
knowledge based society too.
• IT policy is important because IT plays a vital role to build up knowledge based
society and boost up the economic condition of any country. For example we can
take importance of IT policy in Nepal. Such as , IT policy is needed for Nepal to
provide the general people access to IT to make knowledge based society to
established knowledge based industry and to change the economic conditions of
people.
• By this IT, there are many merits which we can take the benefit from it such as,
Promotion of e-commerce , Human resources development, Dissemination of IT
and other related facilities.
 
 
Information Information
Technology Technology

• Globalization • Unemployment 
• Cost-effective • Privacy
• Communication • Lack of job security 
• Creation of New Jobs  • Dominant culture
• Storing and Protecting
Information
• Bridging the cultural gap 
• More time 
 Conclusion
IT can be defined in various ways, but is broadly considered to encompass the use of
computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and
manipulate data. IT policy is important because IT plays a vital role to build up
knowledge based society and boost up the economic condition of any country. Some
of the advantages of Information Technology are Communication,
Creation of New Jobs, Storing and Protecting Information and
Bridging the cultural gap. Some of the Disadvantages are Unemployment ,
Privacy,Lack of job security .
I am very thankful to our computer teacher Mr. Deep Narayan Shrestha for giving us
project work about Information Technology. This project has helped me a lot to know
about Information Technology. I have used many websites to know about
information technology (i.e.
http://www.wiesgeek.com/what-is-information-technology.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
http://www.smallbusinessbible.org/advan_disadvan_ information technology.html)
Thank You